I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
BOBBY SEALEI always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.
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Our position was: If you don’t attack us, there won’t be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.
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We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
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Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
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You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
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We’re hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?
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We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist Live politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.
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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
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We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
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The only solution to pollution is a people’s humane revolution!
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I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.
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